American States Water Company (AWR): Price and Financial Metrics

AWR POWR Grades

• AWR scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 88.11% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for AWR is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 48 weeks.
• AWR ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 2nd percentile.

AWR Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 389.41, American States Water Co is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 92.35% of US stocks.
• American States Water Co's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 84.04% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, AWR is more volatile than only 17.25% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to American States Water Co are AR, NWE, UHT, POR, and ADT.
• Visit AWR's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to americanstateswatercompany.gcs-web.com.

AWR Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Utilities stock, AWR's price/sales ratio is 137.93% higher, now standing at 6.9.
• Over the past 243 months, AWR's price/earnings ratio has gone up 20.
• AWR's price/sales ratio has moved up 5.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AWR.

AWR Growth Metrics

• Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 6.64%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -78.2%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 46.3%.

Over the past 33 months, AWR's revenue has gone up $73,371,000.

The table below shows AWR's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	503.362	117.051	92.585
2021-03-31	496.226	131.192	91.621
2020-12-31	488.243	122.17	86.425
2020-09-30	477.036	120.403	82.914
2020-06-30	477.844	118.46	84.39
2020-03-31	481.213	103.138	85.562

AWR's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AWR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 47.05% of graded US stocks.
• AWR's asset turnover comes in at 0.281 -- ranking 29th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• PEG, CDZI, and NEE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AWR.

The table below shows AWR's key quality metrics over time.